I’m worried.
I really am.
Here we are in May…months before the conventions…yet it appears that all the cards are stacking up against poor Willard. Been stacking up since this ridiculous campaign began.
A “winner” only among a bunch of losers.
But I’m worried.
Yes I am.
Read on for why.
1-He’s an obvious dork.
2-Obama is successfully courting the youth vote…perhaps a heavier constituency than any other bloc if the aim of general advertising is to be believed, and I think that advertising is never, ever wrong in matters of this sort. Why? Because if they choose the wrong demographics, they get fired. Quickly. “Next!!!” cry the corporations, and “Next!!!” and “Next!!!” again until the advertising demonstrably works to produce profit.
Obama’s advertising people…and remember the Obama campaign was named Advertising Age’s Marketer Of The Year in 2008…are spinning him out there as “cool.” Jimmy Fallon, the DC Press Corps dinner, etc. The Preznit as stand-up comic. It won’t lose him the aged vote because they’re gonna vote for Willard anyway, but the youth vote? Oh yes!!! Twittered into near catatonia, all they get is punch lines. And remember the “youth” vote extends right up through people well into their 40s, because “youth” has been sold as what you’re s’pose to be. Even if you’re not.
3-The most recent Ratpublican talking points are aimed at showing how how Obama is “politicizing” the (supposed) death of bin Laden and how sleazy he looks being a stand-up comic. What? Bin Laden’s (supposed) death was blatantly political and has been used for “political” leverage since the first breathless news releases.
You don’t see no Republican pols in that photo, do you?
Of course not.
Bipartisanship only goes so far, don’tcha know. It stops at the advertising door.
Bet on it.
And please read my #2 above to reference the thinking on making Obama look cool.
The Rats are already out of arguments, and spring has barely sprung. Forget about “Four more years!!!”
Four More Months!!!
Four More Months!!!
That’s all the time they have to turn things around.
I mean…Obama’s not going to fuck up, right? Walk out there one day and say “Well, I’ve had about enough of this shit!!! I’m going after the One Percent with the full power of the federal government!!!” That’s the only way that he could lose, the only way the fixers would turn on him, and it simply ain’t gonna happen. His momma didn’t raise no fools.
4-Rupert Murdoch has been declared “not a ‘fit and proper person’ to run a major international company” by British lawmakers. Now never mind that this has been an obvious fact for at least 40 years, and also never mind that he is being piilloried by the Brits for hacking into a couple of corporate info systems while in truth the Brits…the Americans, too and just about everybody else with the wherewithal to set up massive surveillance systems…have been doing precisely the same thing on a nearly cosmic scale for well over 20 years. (The PermaGovs simply don’t like private competition. Thus the fuss over the Google Street View thing as well. “That’s what we do!!! You little fish stay the fuck out of our way!!!”)
How long before Fox News, the NY Post and the Wall Street Journal are herded into this little fiasco? Without the Rupert Empire, could the Ratpubs even win a dogcatcher’s election?
I think not, myself.
5-As I have said before here, the Ratpub demographic is rapidly headed towards a kind of age-related extinction. Like the dinosaurs of old, they are clomp, clomp, clomping right into the tar pits of cemeteries around the country. No matter that most of the next generation is more and more beginning to resemble small rodents…I call them Generation L (for “lemming”), myself…because the little fellers also took over after the dinosaurs were gone. So it goes.
So…why am I worried?
Two reasons.
1-I am not at all sure that I want a “Generation L”-oriented government. If the Ratpubs continue to tank, why…maybe Obama might even gain control of one or both houses of Congress. Lord!!! It’d be Drone City in America a year later. A little constipated? Got a cold? You’ll be getting phone calls and emails from drug companies and the local Department of Wealth…errr, ahhh…Department of Health…suggesting ways to cure your problems before they put you into an N.D.A.A.-style Health Quarantine Camp.
Cain’t have no sickies out there. Nope. We got work to fake!!!
And “If you see something, say something?” Sheeeit, brother!!! They won’t need nobody to say nuthin‘. The drones’lll know before you even think it.
ZZZZZippp!!! ZZZZappp!!! Another thought criminal bites the dust!!! Back to base! Back to base! Gotta recharge.
Yup.
2-I am sure, however, that I don’t want Willard and the Ratpubs to take over, and it looks to me like the Selling of the Preznidency fix might be teetering on the brink of a premature electorization problem. What if they peak too early? Come (on) too quick? Get all safe and flaccid? The American public wants its electoral orgasm. It needs its electoral orgasm!!! Its G spot (G for “Government”) is ever-hungry for more clitilization. If it gets all numb from too much pushing and shoving, will it turn frigid and go for the Robot instead of the Hologram?
At least a robot has a plenitude of hard parts.
Just sayin’…
Could happen.
Watch.
AG